"An ordinary and yet unusual government”: Trouw leads with a shot of Queen Beatrix and the new Dutch cabinet on the steps of her home in The Hague, Huis Ten Bosch. Mark Rutte, the first head of a conservative-liberal government in 92 years, admits his coalition is a little unusual – without a parliamentary majority, it will need backing from Geert Wilders’ populist and Islamophobic PVV. “Especially abroad, however,” reports the Dutch daily, “Rutte insists The Netherlands has a normal government." Only a month ago though, he had claimed the new cabinet would “make the Dutch right lick their chops” – a gaffe for which he is now trying to make amends. Hence the new spin: “A government open towards society, but towards other parliamentary parties as well.”
The leader of Greece’s leftist alliance SYRIZA is the new bright hope of Greek politics. Steering a course between pragmatism and the rhetoric of class warfare, he has unsettled Berlin, and not just those who back Angela Merkel's austerity policies. 
Europe’s economic woes have forced us to try to understand the secret Olympian world of global finance. But now that we pay more attention to bond yields and stability mechanisms, isn’t it clear that the experts up on their lofty peaks don’t know what’s going on either? 
This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is hosted by Azerbaijan, a country that is far from being a model democracy. An Estonian journalist takes a critical look at the deferential treatment enjoyed by the regime in Baku.